Blog: Prepare your application landscape for zero trust with Keycloak 26.2

[Alexander Schwartz]

Dear Keycloak community,

There is now a new blog available on the CNCF blog - enjoy!

https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/04/24/prepare-your-application-landscape-for-zero-trust-with-keycloak-26-2/

It covers the highlights of this release: 

• Least-privileged delegated access for day-to-day operations without service desk tickets by delegating administrative tasks to application owners.
• Enhanced token-exchange for accurate and narrowly scoped tokens for zero trust architectures.

It also provides additional information other major advancement in the release, namely 

• Pre-defined Grafana dashboard to monitor service level indicators and key metrics of your self-hosted installations.
• Simplified update and configuration to increase availability, security-by-default and automation.

Enjoy reading, and reach out with any questions you might have!

Best,

Alexander

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Alexander Schwartz, RHCE

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